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KARL BLOSSFELDT
Wundergarten der Natur -- The Magic Garden of Nature. Berlin: Verlag Für Kunstwissenschaft, 1932.
Quarto (317 x 248mm). 120 black and white photographs. (Light scattered spotting on the edges.) Original blue cloth, spine and front cover blocked in gold, original photo-illustrated dust-jacket (dust-jacket with a few small chips and short tears repaired with clear tape from verso); brown leather-backed folding case.
FIRST EDITION, IN AN EXCELLENT EXAMPLE OF THE RARE DUST-JACKET. The second volume of Blossfeldt's three 'immensely popular, regularly reprinted "pictorial documents"... In 1929, a selection of the work was exhibited at the Bauhaus... but even before that Blossfeldt had become an unwitting avatar of the New Objectivity' (101 Books). 101 Books, pp.48-9; The Open Book, pp.106-107.
Wundergarten der Natur -- The Magic Garden of Nature. Berlin: Verlag Für Kunstwissenschaft, 1932.
Quarto (317 x 248mm). 120 black and white photographs. (Light scattered spotting on the edges.) Original blue cloth, spine and front cover blocked in gold, original photo-illustrated dust-jacket (dust-jacket with a few small chips and short tears repaired with clear tape from verso); brown leather-backed folding case.
FIRST EDITION, IN AN EXCELLENT EXAMPLE OF THE RARE DUST-JACKET. The second volume of Blossfeldt's three 'immensely popular, regularly reprinted "pictorial documents"... In 1929, a selection of the work was exhibited at the Bauhaus... but even before that Blossfeldt had become an unwitting avatar of the New Objectivity' (101 Books). 101 Books, pp.48-9; The Open Book, pp.106-107.
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